As with source code, if you can get a consistent linter/formatter run on the file before commit you should see less "jitter" in the diffs those commits produce.

As with source code, if you can get a consistent linter/formatter run on the file before commit you should see less "jitter" in the diffs those commits produce. I got some decent results with `xmllint --format` which is the linter/formatter from libxml2 (so available in most Linux distros and ported to most platforms). (I was using xmllint as a formatting step when unpacking ODT files in my similar tool to the directly above; mentioned in a sibling comment. I found the XML files in ODT files were much more prone to being minimalized and reformatted/reordered on every save in comparison to DOCX which was surprisingly more stable in XML formatting.)